In my opinion I think it was harder to control the outside of the French Empire because he had some control from the people in the inside. The outside was a different story. He didn't have control on their boundaries in the beginning. Napoleon had a failure in saint Domingie, he thought he would be winning even though he lost, he thought he would punish the British and get a lot of money doing it too. Although it says in the book that Britain, Portugal, Sweden, and Ottoman Empire were all of Napoleons puppets, and some of his family. Napoleon has a lot of alliances inside and outside, but I believe that the outside would be harder to get a hold of and deal with their forces. In the book it says that the French empire was very big, but it was